England's 20th Dreadnought Conqueror Launched on Clyde
The article details the British dreadnought program with the Conqueror launched May 1 1910 at Clyde yards, sister to Thunderer Memarch and Orion, and outlines fleet plans, armament, speed, and displacement. It contrasts with German dreadnought progress and compares implications for naval superiority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde
Tadentland
Messrs. W. Beardmore and Co. Dalmair
Harbastle
Ile
Conqueror
Balfour
Simpson
Sixpences on City Tombstone at St Bartholomew's churchyard
A Good Friday rite at St Bartholomew's in West Smithfield features about 20 widows picking sixpence from a flat tombstone for a benefactress's repose. The piece notes vandalized Coronation Chair history and then surveys the fate of Mary figures in history and literature, ending with a reflection on the name Mary and the name Veronica.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Bartholomew: the Great
West Smithfield
Benjamin Turner
Corporation
Is the Name of Mary Cursed! A Perception in Verse
Fragmentary dialogue examines the superstition that all Marys are born to sorrow. The speaker contends the name carries a haunting fate while others debate the implication and its historical tone.
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Mary the Virgin
Mary the Magdalen
Mary
France
Scotland
Ainise
Veronica
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Thos. Hayward & Son
the Drapers
Bunbury
Eider Down Quilts
England
Nelson
Westminster Abbey
Jacob
Somers Clarke
Abbey
Wright
House of Commons
Clarke
Tottenham Coat Road
Sean
Edward ID
Mary 1
Winchester Cathedral
the Marys of History
Redy
Mary Stuart
Leslie
Book of History
Mary of
House of Stuart
Firth
Pepys
Willian of
Orange
Wood
The
Hague
Marya
Umhagpy Iie
King Henrne
Walde
Mariana
Monted Grange
Mary Bourke
Marion Shehone
Byron
Chaworth
Jack Masters
Burns
Robert Burns
Mary Moriwn
Mary Campbell
Bunbury A
Bexsury
City Stables
M. J. Kelly
Royal Mail Carrier Lime and Coal Merchant
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